More states ban 'magic mint'

More states ban 'magic mint'

SAN DIEGO, June 22 (UPI) -- U.S. sellers of the hallucinogen Salvia divinorum say they're feeling the crackdown from states rushing to ban use of the leaf.

Eleven states, including Maine and California, now restrict the use of salvia and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is considering a nationwide ban, USA Today reported Monday.

As the legal market shrinks, wholesalers are making fewer trips this year to Mexico's Sierra Mazateca, where the leaf known as "magic mint" is grown, said Carlos Campos, president of Aztecas Plants.

The plant has been a crucial cash crop for poor farmers, said Campos who last year exported 8 tons of salvia leaves to the United States and Europe, up from 550 pounds in 2002.

"This is an important part of their economy," he said. "These legal issues really hurt."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/22/More-states-ban-magic-mint/UPI-22901245678992/

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It's grossly overrated. The person gets a short burst of the effects, but you're literally talking about minutes or seconds for a usage.

Yes, accidentally. Nobody told me what it was.

It felt like I was sitting in the center of a spinning dinner plate that was balanced on a sharp pin. You know, like those spinning plate people do on stage.

I didn't like it, but thankfully, the effects lasted two minutes, tops. Never touched it again after that...

if the price is right. sounds kinda fun.

in addition it will make you sweat profusely for that two second high.

In this case draconian government laws and personal experience both agree that Salvia sucks.


By making the substance illegal the price will increase therebye decreasing the total number of people who end up massively disappointed with their purchase via first use curiosity. Hopefully that same money will be spent on a much more benefitial purchase like weed or shrooms.

for the money you just saved me.

I don't like wine coolers either - but I don't want to issue a fatwa against Bartles and James

"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes."
Abraham Lincoln

"A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln

That's why we drink it here.

But I guess no more salvia here. In heaven maybe?

Everything else, ILLEGAL!.

If you use it correctly it will help you to focus and explore alternate realities and timelines. That being said, it is nothing I would do recreationally. It isn't what I would call a fun trip, but if you are doing internal or spiritual work it can be beneficial.